WAR: Iraq in turmoil

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Late in the year, members of a Palestinian delegation who...

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The Whole Hog: Panama What?

It may have been famous for its hats and its canal – but with the release of the Panama Papers, the Central American country is now best known as a place where sometimes ill-gotten gains are salted away...

Sex Abuse and Sinn Féin

The Whole Hog: The Hot 900

From its initial vantage point on page three of the first issue of Hot Press, over the intervening 900 issues, The Whole Hog column has covered social, political and environmental issues around the world. In many ways it has been an exercise in observing the extraordinary capacity of humanity to get things wrong. And yet, there have been reasons to be cheerful, notably in the changes that have taken place in Ireland…

SAY IT LOUD, YOU’RE IRISH AND PROUD

The Whole Hog: SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM

Bosnia made it to the world cup finals, in the process making light of the country’s historic troubles. but in the emerging Jihadist force, Isis, there is a threat which will give the relatively liberal Muslims of Bosnia - along with the rest of the modern world – much to fear.

Fighting the good fight

Cyprus Ill

To paraphrase Bertie, the crash keeps getting crasher, with tiny Cyprus and its bloated banking sector feeling the chill winds of the global economic collapse. But who should pick up the tab for a nation awash with ‘hot’ money?

Kids’ play?

You Get What You Pay For

Like it or not, taxation is absolutely vital for enabling the State to provide decent public services. So why all the uproar? As with so much else, it’s a legacy of the Reagan/Thatcher reign of error...

Who’s fit for the áras?

Yours truly, angry mob

With the first of the UK rioters being dumped into an overcrowded prison system, the media continue to point fingers and call for their heads. In the search for a sensationalist headline, could they be coming for you next?

The Sirius season

With the Dog Star hanging overhead, our friends in the media are liable to get a bit hot and bothered over almost anything during the Silly Season. This time around – Summer Drubbin’ for David Norris...

Learning To Co-Exist With Nature

The Night Of The Long Knives

We have just witnessed the most sensational election since the foundation of the Free State, with the decimation of the outgoing coalition parties, Fianna Fáil and the Greens. With the election of Luke “Ming” Flanagan, Richard Boyd Barrett, Shane Ross, Clare Daly and Mick Wallace – to name just five – the new Dáil will be a far more interesting place. But the challenges facing the incoming administration are no less daunting for that...